Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and ...

Here is the way it works: The cylinder records may be either shipped to me ... Unlike celluloid cylinders such as Edison's Blue Amberols (which will probably outlive us all), time is not kind ...

So when did Thomas Edison enter the picture ... human beings have these cylinders that they can record, and so they start going out and recording all kinds of interesting things and then trying ...